MEXICO CITY — For decades, they have been a bright and crucial part of Mexico City’s identity: street food stalls decorated with colorful, exuberant paintings of sandwiches, bright-eyed shellfish or smiling pigs simmering in pots of boiling broth. The designs are called rótulos, public art painted by hand with to draw in customers.
But this year, a Mexico City politician issued an edict. Sandra Cuevas, mayor of the Mexico City borough of Cuauhtémoc, said the street paintings that had come to characterize the local culinary variety in strings of colorful stalls were not compatible with her vision of a modern metropolis. Read More...